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Crunchy Chicken

Crunchy Chicken

Crunchy Chicken

Oh wow. I thought I must've put this one on here, seeing as how it's a never-fail winner around here. But, it's not my recipe... or rather I've adapted one from the RPA Hospital's Friendly Food cookbook... so perhaps that's why I didn't. The cookbook has it under the 'Kids' section, as a party finger-food, so it uses 3cm strips of chicken. I use whole breasts, but sliced in half so they're not too thick. The portions below are for my family of 6, who are decidedly greedy when it comes to this meal. If you work on a rough ratio of 500g chicken for 300g chips (1 large packet), that should work out okay.

Verdict: Nom nom nom nom....is all I can hear. Seconds... always! Even Ms D's friends know Crunchy Chicken and quietly ask if we can have it when over for a sleepover. When you eaten this, I want to know. Was it a bit like KFC?? Just a bit? Or is that because my taste buds are so not used to takeaway?

Tweeks: Leave out the spring onion if you want to, it's fine without. You can add garlic to the chip coating as well. If you don't think you'll need that much chips, then crush a bit at a time. You can always do more. Just don't make the mistake of adding salt. There's just no need!!

eta...My sister recommended I try marinading the chicken in yogurt... oh lordy! That was delish!! I have added it now as an alternative to the egg/flour. The chicken was oh, so tender. Thanks to my sister. :)

12/11/11 Another tweek. Today I added 2 cloves of garlic and about 1/2 tsp of citric acid to the chips in the TMX. I might increase that next time to more like 1 tsp of citric. The lemon/garlic flavouring was quite tasty.

Leftovers: The leftover crushed chips are a bit raw-chickeny... so you couldn't just eat them, but don't throw them out! While you're cooking the chicken, put the leftover crushed chips on another tray and cook them for about 10 minutes. After they're cold, put them into an airtight container and into the fridge. They go very well sprinkled onto the salad recipe. Mr frillypants took a bowl of leftover steamed vegies to work, sprinkled with leftover chips too. He said it was great.

Leftover Crunchy Chicken goes very well in school lunch boxes by itself or in a 'roll up' with salad vegies and some Mighty Mayo or Pear Ketchup or use it to make a Chicken Salad for dinner another night.